LD Olli Juolevi - TPS, Liiga (2016, 5th, VAN)

[tony d]

To bad to see that with Juolevi. Still have high hopes for him that he can be a solid top 4 defenseman in the NHL.

 

[Dump Itch]

Wow. How did Benning not foresee this? What a bad GM.

 

[TheFinnishTrap]

That sucks.

 

[Filthy Dangles]

that is bad, very bad. hopefully it's not career threatenting

 

[CRDragon]

Wow. How did Benning not foresee this? What a bad GM.

When would you have expected Jim Benning to foresee this? Before the draft? What a terrible comment.

Let's hope Juolevi recovers from this well.

 

[Pestilence]

When would you have expected Jim Benning to foresee this? Before the draft? What a terrible comment.

What are you doing? This comment belongs to Etteduag ot Reseob.

 

[Seatoo]

Recovery is like 6 weeks? He won't be making the big club this year if he basically cant train until the last week of July.

 

[Frankie Blueberries]

Classic Canuck luck.
Oh well. I think there's still a decent chance he sees some time in the NHL this season, just mid-to-late season given the delay in his off-season conditioning. He'll probably start in the AHL and be a call-up for injuries later in the season.

 

[These Are The Days]

How do you hurt your back playing video games? This kid must be intense /sarcasm

 

[Rolo]

How do you hurt your back playing video games? This kid must be intense /sarcasm

Bad posture when playing video games

 

[nucks88]

How do you hurt your back playing video games? This kid must be intense /sarcasm

It takes a special kind of tough guy to make light of a 20 year old kid having back surgery.

 

[nucks88]

Bad posture when playing video games

Ditto

 

[Thorton02]

Shouldn't be too bad. I mean, when's the last time a top rated Canucks prospect had a back injury?

 

[Jack DiBiase]

It's probably just a scratch on a PS4 game disc.

 

[Belieber]

As long as he's healthy in 3-5 years they won't care. Now that the Sedins have finally left they can turn this rebuild into a very special type of tank job.

 

[teravaineSAROS]

Bad posture when playing video games

also people who play video games are on average less physically healthy and more prone to say back problems so it would've made sense

 

[IComeInPeace]

Daniel Sedin had the same surgery before the start of his 2nd NHL season (he had it done in May though, a month earlier in the off season) back in 2001, before he became a star at the NHL level.

These are relatively minor surgeries; the real downside is that it will put Olli a month behind in his training, and a good off season of training is really important for him.

Maybe it works out for the best as it might make him start the season in Utica which is probably the best place for him initially.

 

[thelittlecoon]

One of the greatest hockey minds in the universe Emmanuel Perry named Olli Juolevi the 5th best prospect in the league pre-2018 draft.

 

[LemonSauceD]

One of the greatest hockey minds in the universe Emmanuel Perry named Olli Juolevi the 5th best prospect in the league pre-2018 draft.

Tolvanen over Heiskanen? hmmm

 

[SoundAndFury]

Do you get some kind of bonus for being European in his system? Because it definitely looks so.

 

[ijuka]

Do you get some kind of bonus for being European in his system? Because it definitely looks so.

It weighs production in professional leagues pretty highly in comparison to junior leagues.

 

[SoundAndFury]

It weighs production in professional leagues pretty highly in comparison to junior leagues.

D production as well. Valimaki at #10, Jokiharju at #14 just because they can score in junior while Liljegren who had a very solid rookie season in the AHL as an 18 year-old at #42. That just doesn't seem to be right. Even more so considering Valimaki turns 20 on 2nd day of the season.

 

[ijuka]

D production as well. Valimaki at #10, Jokiharju at #14 just because they can score in junior while Liljegren who had a very solid rookie season in the AHL as an 18 year-old at #42. That just doesn't seem to be right.

Maybe his playoff performance has something to do with it? Juolevi for instance was reportedly amazing in playoffs(After the moderately disappointing regular season) and that seems to be reflected in the scoring as well.

 

[SoundAndFury]

Maybe his playoff performance has something to do with it? Juolevi for instance was reportedly amazing in playoffs(After the moderately disappointing regular season) and that seems to be reflected in the scoring as well.

Yeah, sure, Valimaki is so high because he kept producing in the PO as well. But I don't think he adjusts the coefficient for it or anything it's just that they managed to keep producing at high PPG number while a lot of other players' numbers dip in PO. Nicolas Hague, for example, would be there as well as he had better numbers than Valimaki or Jokiharju in junior before they got "ruined" by his stint in the AHL.

It's kinda the perfect example of a major flaw of this, purely statistical, system. Hague was better than them when he played against the same level of competition and in the rankings he isn't just because he did play against higher level competition as well while the other guys didn't. If he played for a junior team which advanced one round of the playoffs further he would be there at ~#12.

 

[Haatley]

D production as well. Valimaki at #10, Jokiharju at #14 just because they can score in junior while Liljegren who had a very solid rookie season in the AHL as an 18 year-old at #42. That just doesn't seem to be right. Even more so considering Valimaki turns 20 on 2nd day of the season.

The Hockey News and Craig Button also had Valimaki quite high and Liljegren quite low. It turns out it is only Leaf fans that were impressed with Liljegren last year. His stock dropped when he only scored 1 goal all season and couldn't produce 5 on 5. He was quite terrible on both ends. Bad in WJC as well.